Anxiety in patients

Cumbrian dentist Jos Stevenson has one simple piece of advice for dentists who might be considering Vibraject: “Get it, you won’t regret it.”

Jos recalls the first day she used Vibraject. She had met the UK distributor Murray Hawkins at The Dentistry Show. “I was there looking at ideas to equip a new surgery. I hadn’t gone with any idea or list of sundries, but Murray described this thing to me and I just thought it sounded great and it was a low enough cost item to give it a try. As soon as it arrived I used it on the very next patient who walked in the door. After I had used the Vibraject, the patient asked me: ‘When do you give me the injection?’ I have used it on virtually every single patient since then. I think it’s fantastic.”

Vibraject is a small device, similar to a TENS machine, which attaches to a normal syringe. Jos is the principal of a new practice based in Maryport, Cumbria. She says that being private in a socio-economically deprived town shouldn’t work, but it does. Why? One of the most compelling reasons is the reputation she is building as a gentle clinician.